Vulgar words in Mr. Standfast (Page 1)

This book at a glance

canuck x 1 cuss x 1 damn x 2 fag x 2 knocked up x 1

make love x 3 scrap x 2 snag x 1 spunk x 2

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They were asking me to scrap all I had learned and start again in a new job.

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And in the evening, after a bath, there would be supper, when a rather fagged Jimson struggled between sleep and hunger, and the lady, with an artistic mutch on her untidy head, talked ruthlessly of culture.

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That's the meaning o' Labour unrest, as they call it, and it's a good thing, says I, for if Labour didna get its leg over the traces now and then, the spunk o' the land would be dead in it, and Hindenburg could squeeze it like a rotten aipple.'

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Damn it, sir, I've a wire here from the Chief Constable describing you.

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Likewise the cuffs and collar, though here I struck a snag, for I had lost my scarf somewhere in the Coolin, and Amos, pelican-like, had to surrender the rusty black tie which adorned his own person.

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Have you one of those rare and valuable curiosities called a spunk, Mr McCaskie?'

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'I've no quarrel with you, and I've better things to do than be scrapping with a stranger in a public-house.'

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But the darned cuss wouldn't stay put.

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He had the insolence with all his toad-like past to make love to that clean and radiant girl.

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Mary spoke in the most matter-of-fact tone, as if it were a perfectly usual thing to be made love to by a spy, and that rather soothed my annoyance.

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'Ivery thinks the same,' I said grimly, for my detestation of the man who had made love to Mary fairly choked me.

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The Canadians live over the fence from us, but you mix up a Canuck with a Yank in your remarks and you'll get a bat in the eye ...

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You'll find us mighty respectful to other parts of your Empire, but we say anything we damn well please about England.

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At about two in the morning of the 19th after a slow and icy journey she arrived at the inn, knocked up the aged servants, made herself a cup of chocolate out of her tea-basket and sat down to wait on my coming.

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Thank God, the enemy was getting away from his big engine, and his ordinary troops were fagged and poor in quality.

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